"Mac OS X can't repair the disk . . ." about THREE drives at once!?
I got the message "Mac OS X can't repair the disk . . ." not about just one drive, but about THREE drives -- a FW800 6TB CalDigit (RAID1), a 6TB LaCie 2 Big (RAID1), and a 1TB Lacie that I was using for Time Machine. A genius at the local Apple store told me he'd never seen this and that from his research it appeared to be unprecdented. What gives? I'm on a early 2011 MacBook Pro 17" with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB 1333 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6750N 1024 MB, running OS X 10.8.4.
I should back up and say that last night, I unmounted each of the drives, watched the drive icons disappear from the desktop and unplugged their connectors (FW800, thunderbolt, and USB, respectively). This morning, I plugged the drives back in and got the message above along with an arresting red stop sign symbold wiht excamation point in the middle.
I should add that the messages for each drive went on to say, "You can still open or copy files on the disk, but you can't save changes to files on the disk. Back up the disk and reformat it as soon as possible."
So now I am engaged in the very time consuming process of transferring everything off of each drive, one at a time onto backup drives. Once that's done I plan to erase each of the original drives with zeros and reformat them. But I'm very worried this might happen again.
A few months ago, the exact same thing happened with one drive (the 6TB Cal Digit), and (perhaps significantly) it happened after I had unplugged the firewire accidentally. I transferred everything on it to an empty drive, reformatted it, and it's been running fine. I had assumed it was just some fleeting problem with that drive. But now that THREE drives did this at the same time, I'm wondering if something could be wrong with my Mac, with OS X, with my karma, . . . Who knows? Any ideas?
Thanks!
Harry
MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB 1333 MHz